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Blessed Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera (1893 – 8 February 1983) was a Roman Catholic Spanish nun and she was the founder of both the Handmaids of Merciful Love in 1930 and the Sons of Merciful Love in 1951. She took the name of "Maria Esperanza of Jesus" when she became a nun. Valera was cleared for beatification in 2013 after a miracle that had found to have been attributed to her intercession was cleared. She was beatified on in 2014 by Cardinal Angelo Amato on behalf of Pope Francis. ==Biography== Valera was born in 1893 in Spain to poor parents as the eldest of nine children. Her name of Maria Josefa was in honor of her grandmother. Her mother was a housewife while her father served as an agricultural worker. Valera studied as a child under female religious and it was from them she learnt how to do housework. Valera received communion at the age of 12 but she had received it at the age of 8 as she herself said to "steal" Jesus Christ. This occurred when the priest was absent and she went to the tabernacle to receive the consecrated host. Valera - at the age of 21 - became a member of the Congregation of the Daughters of Calvary in Villena. She established two of her own orders in 1930 and in 1951 for women and for men respectively. In the 1950s she decided to begin a project that she believed represented the will of God: the construction of a sanctuary that would be dedicated to the love of God. On 22 November 1981, Pope John Paul II visited the sanctuary and visited Valera. In 1982, the pope recognized it as being a "minor basilica". She died in early 1983 and was buried in that church she worked hard to build. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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